ANKARA - NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Commander Gen. James Jones arrived in Ankara on Tuesday.
Jones will firstly meet with Chief of General Staff Hilmi Ozkok on Wednesday.
Jones then will visit National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul the same day.
Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok who earlier issued a statement, had said that they would also take up the Iraqi issue with Gen. Jones. Noting that they would have the first military meeting with U.S. officials within the scope of the authority they got from the government, Gen. Ozkok had stated that ''our target in this meeting is to obtain military information which the government needs about the things that can be done in Iraq and to submit this information as a study to the government. The decision which the government will give certainly depends on the decision of the parliament. We will get the military information that is needed. We won't do anything other than that.''
Gen. Ozkok had also added that a U.S. delegation would come to Turkey to hold technical meetings at the end of the weekend.
(GC-AÖ) 02.09.2003